If you experience foot pain, low back discomfort or aching hip joints wearing high heel footwear, a new low-cost High Heel Healing e-book is being published in the Fall of 2014 with eight chapters of detailed information on better foot function for improved posture and pain relief for joints of the ankles, knees, hips and all parts of the back.
The heels of the feet are the lower parts of what's known in physical fitness circles, yoga disciplines and movement studies as the back body.
The heels align with the great supportive strength of the hamstrings muscles as well as having skeletally-supportive relation to the important points of the pelvic structure including sits bones and the backs of the hips - which align on either side of the central spine.
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Understanding the back body and how strength of back muscles serves support of the spine has been the focus of the work of Tim Driscoll from Backbone and Wingspan for over eighteen years.
This enhanced e-book is filled with over 500 photos, illustrations and interactive images!
As well as Twelve Two-Minute Videos !
In the last several years of owning a Pilates studio in Midtown Manhattan of NYC, he hosted a number of High Heel Recovery Clinics - and his approach to assisting women in need of pain relief - as well as desire for better postural support and more graceful ways of walking in high heels - was featured in CNN.com Health and Gotham Magazine as well as on CBS News New York - in addition to receiving mention in The New York Times Thursday Styles Section.
You can see snippets of press clippings with links to the stories at the website HighHeelHealing.com.
Since moving on from owning and managing a studio, he has devoted the last several years of his profession to creating - in writing, video and hundreds of interactive illustrations - how to use the feet - and particularly the heels - to access the entire system of back body support.....
from releasing tight calf muscles in order for powerful hamstrings strength to engage all the way up to the stability of the sits bones -
to being able to use deep core muscle support by freeing the lower spinal length down through the sacrum and tail bone.
In this new e-book every chapter has knowledge, verbal imagery, and body movement metaphors to assist in all aspects of better body support for high heels - or really any type of footwear.
Plus there are activities you can practice sitting, standing and walking which will incorporate the knowledge into your body for better grounding, stability, mobility, and agility.
With Driscoll's new name as an author - Herald - he details in writing - as well as illuminating through hundreds of photos and illustrations and twelve instructive videos - the following variety of foot, hip and spine aspects of better supporting the body:
Grounding: accessing better arch support and using the feet better to lengthen the spinal curves
Frontal Foot: Arches and Insteps with info on hammertoes and other foot afflictions
Heels: Leverage & Alignment foot support for walking in high heels and in exercise & running
Knee & Ankle Joint Support ankle mobility & releasing tight iliotibial band or I.T.B. for knee pain
Shins & Calves : Tension Release Achilles tendon strength, calves stretching & plantar fasciitis
Hamstrings : Tether & Tone with info on hamstrings strength and upper leg & hip muscle tone
Sits Bones: Postural Stability improving postural support for long periods of sitting or standing
Hip Joint Health pelvic joint stability, waistline length and releasing tight hips & toning saddlebags
Sacrum as a Structure help for sacroiliac joint pain & sciatica and stretching deep hip muscles
Lumbar Spine & Core Strength better support for lumbar vertebrae and low back pain relief
Besides over seventeen years as a Pilates instructor, movement teacher and body worker, Herald has a wide background as a solo performer and published author - and for his body-oriented creative writing he also received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in Non-Fiction Literature.
To receive information as to the publication of this new e-book High Heel Healing by Herald, please connect to one of the social media pages where the future release date of the book will be published - as of this time, the projected release date is October of 2014.
Connect to High Heel Healing through the Google Plus Page - which currently features a selection of high heel and foot support videos and photo albums for your perusal - by typing this URL into your browser: plus.google.com/+HighHeelHealing/ or clicking the link below:
Google + Page for High Heel Healing for Foot Pain Relief, Back Support & Posture
You can also click on to this link to connect to the Facebook Page Heel & Sole for Pain Relief or by typing this URL into your browser: www.facebook.com/highheelpainrelief
On either of these social media pages - which each have plentiful foot support and posture information within themselves - you're assured of being notified exactly when this new High Heel Healing e-book becomes published in the very near future. The projected release date is October of 2014.
Please also visit the website for HighHeelHealing.com for more information - this website connects to FeetForFitness.com with pages for Heels & Hamstrings | Ankles Shins & Calves | Knee & Hip Joints:
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Thanks for taking time to read this blog. Please comment with thoughts or questions.
- Herald
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You can reach me at the links below:
Websites: feetforfitness.com highheelhealing.com backboneandwingspan.com
Facebook: Heel & Sole for Foot Pain
Twitter: Herald @wingspanman
I am so looking forward to this ebook. As a ballroom dancer recovering from a fracture, this is just in time! As a Pilates teacher this will help me aid clients with connecting to the back body. An important subject from a gifted teacher. I can't wait!
Posted by: Heather Lane | 01/23/2014 at 04:30 PM
"I love this subject. I'm not really a "how-to" book sort of reader but this subject interests me because I have poor posture, my feet hurt, and I know that I'm not using my body correctly. I would read this to see if I can change any of those things. I'm excited about this book! You are a gifted teacher and you truly have a talent for this."
Deb Markanton
Posted by: Deb Markanton | 01/25/2014 at 08:41 PM
I look forward to this e-book. The visualization of an instructive text through pictures, video, and photos seems brilliant. Great topic and applicable to so many of us. Can't wait!
Posted by: Jtte1 | 02/02/2014 at 08:18 AM
You know, you amaze me with all the images you are able to conjure in my head as I read this book. That's because you don't take yourself too seriously when doing it. I also find it imaginative and refreshing and very writerly. This piece gives me a different view of my body. The fact that straight lines is a fallacy is cool! I love the analogies you use here for this last part!! - Ronda Church
Posted by: Ronda Church | 02/04/2014 at 10:07 AM
Heads up to every woman who just feels sexier and more powerful in heels but pays the painful price at the end of the day... This is the book we have all been waiting for!
God Bless you Herald!
Posted by: Elizabeth Andes-Bell | 10/13/2014 at 11:24 AM